Book cover "The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories" selected by Herbert van Thal.

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Bertie Maurice van Thal (1904–1983), known as Herbert van Thal, was a British bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist. The book contains: The Last Night by Charles Birkin; Meshes of Doom by Neville Kilvington; The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson; Lovers' Meeting by John Ratho; The Caretaker's Story by Edith Oliver; Dr. Fawcett's Experiment by Raymond Ferris Broad; The Mystery of the Locked Room by Elliott O'Donnell; A Note for the Milkman by Sidney Carroll; A Poem and a Bunch of Roses by Charles Lloyd; The Execution of Damiens by H H Ewers; The Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany; A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner; The Shifting Growth by Edgar Jepson and John Gawsworth; Unburied Bane by N Dennett; The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York by Algernon Blackwood; The Ocean Leech by Frank Belknap Long; The Cone by H G Wells; and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe.

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